Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
THE EAST.

THE Grant locomotive works at Paterson.
N. j., were on fire on the 7th. Loss, $780,
O0O Six hundred men were thrown out of
employment.
THE final heat between Teemer, Hamm
and Bubear, in the regatta on Seneca Lake,
Watkins, N. Y, was rowed on the 9TH.
Teemer led throughout and won by a
length. Hamm second and Bubear third.
JOCKEY WARDER, who was badly injured
III the steeple chase at Niagara Falls, N.
Y, died the same day.
ROBERT BARTON, manufacturing jewel
er OF Providence, r. l., has called meet
ing of his creditors. His liabilities were
estimated at 100000.
W. B. MCKEE, of Railway, n. j., has been
elected president and S. K. Baughman, of
Camp Point, ILL.,, secretary and treasurer
of the Railway Mail Service Benevolent
Association.
The New Haven Comm Wire Company
which is involved in the E. S. Wheeler
iron failure, has been placed in a receivers
hands.
AN explosion occurred on board the
schooner War Eagle, loaded with naphtha,
at Boston, recently. The vessel was COM
pIetely burned, together with a bridge and
Platte Washburn's factory adjoining. A
man named Henry O'Donnell was burned
to death, and the steward jumped over
board and was drowned. The captain and
mate were very badly injured, and four
longshoremep were more or less burned.
EXECUTIONS for 10000 have been issued
against McFall, Hetzel & Co., extensive
lumber dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa.
MANCHESTER, N. h, has developed a min
iature reproduction of the London scandal
exposed by the Pail 1HdH Gazette. The per-
sons implicated embrace we'll known bus
mess and professional men and four young
girls, whose ages range from eleven to six
teen years. The exposure came about
through the confession of one of the girls.
NORMAN E. MACK, president of the Buff
falo IN. W EUeniug Times Company Qimit-
ed) has notified his employees that the office
would pay the union scale and employ none
but union men. The Times had been a nom
union Office for two years.
RUMsEY BROS, shoe manufacturers of
Lynn, Mass, who have been in trouble
with their employees for year, have finally
agreed to employ only union men and
accede to the terms of the State Board of
Arbitration.
DELEGATES from about sixty labor and
political organizations of socialistic tenden-
cies met in New York recently and formed
a new political party in opposition to Henry
George. 1t is to be known as the Progress
Sive Labor party.
DURING the tornado in the Schoharie val
ley, N. Y, on the 9TH, several persons We're
injured, hop yards destroyed, crops ruined
and some stock killed. Fifty barns were
unroofed, and Alfred w. Grifford's house
at Southburne was demolished.
JUDGE WILLIAM 5. GARDNER of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts, has resigned
and Judge Marcus P. Knowlton, of the Su-
perior Court, has been named as his sue
cessor.
Four hundred and fifty Mormons from
England, Scandinavia and Germany landed
ut New York on the Sth in charge of John
Isaac Hart, of Utah, bound for that Terri
tory.
New JERSEY Prohibitionists met at Tren-
ton on the Sth, aud resolved, among other
things, that their candidates must be indie
pendent of other existing parties.
PENNSYLVANIA brewers have formed an
organization for political work.
UNKNOWN thieves near Lewiston, Ne
recently stole S2.O00 belonging to a farmer
named Decker and destroyed the house
with fire.
+. c. DAVENPORT, dealer in metals Bos-
ton, is in financial straits caused by E. S.
Wheeler & Co.'S collapse. His liabilities
are placed at 100000.
THE New York Central's earnings in
August were 1851. 347 larger than in the same
month last year.
TIE corner stone OF the New York Con-
solidafed Stock and Petroleum Exchange
building was laid on the Sth.